Qingqiu and his three men stood in the dark, their illuminated phones still flashing with a faint blue light.

Everyone's face was ugly.

The ground was littered with hundreds, if not thousands, of various colors, most of which even carried the deceased's clothing.

When Aogaoka picked them up, he found that all the pieces had turned into a hard material like ceramic. Although the shape has not changed, it can be from the body pieces to the internal organs, to the fabric of the clothes, and even to the crystal that is ready to fight at any time...... All of them have become ceramic-like existences.

If it weren't for the fact that everyone saw this woman named "Liao Qing" with their own eyes, she would directly crack into countless pieces. They couldn't believe that these things on earth were once living people!

His fingers pressed lightly, but he failed to crush them as expected, and it was not until he used a few minutes of internal breath that he could barely "rub" a few large pieces in his hand into smaller particles. And you must know that with Qingqiu's finger power, you usually knead the green ghost crystal on your hand into a thorough powder, and you don't need half a minute of internal breath at all.

What a hard ceramic material!

"What's that?"

Recalling the expressionless face of "Mo Chabai" just now, the three subordinates shivered in unison, and even a chill rose in Qingqiu's heart. Having practiced for decades and explored countless monuments, he had never encountered such a strange situation.

Fortunately, this place was not far from the exit, and he immediately ordered: "Go, the sooner the better!"

When the words fell, several people walked quickly by the light of their mobile phones without hesitation, almost no longer thinking about whether to hide their breath, just wanting to get as far away from this increasingly strange place as possible.

Unfortunately, before they had taken a few steps, the remaining three men, one man and one woman, slowed down rapidly, and at the same time showed a look of pain—their bodies were stiff, their faces were pale, and their hands and feet were constantly trembling.

It's cold!

It's really cold!

It's only a few steps, and it's less than five seconds. The temperature around several people dropped from minus two or three degrees to at least minus thirty or forty degrees in an instant, from a slight cold...... It turned into a freeze!

"Giggles. ”

The sound of chattering teeth came from their mouths incessantly, and everyone moved stiffly and clenched their arms, and their eyes, ears, mouth, and nose were directly covered with a thin layer of frost.

"No...... No, even the internal breath is ...... Coming soon...... By...... Frozen. ”

This extremely cold low temperature is not just as simple as cold! With the strength of the three-person martial arts and witch paths, even if they enter the cold storage at the same temperature in their normal state, they will never lose their ability to move so quickly.

This low temperature seemed to be directly directed at the cultivator's meridians, internal breath, and even soul!

The three of them looked at Qingqiu with a look of despair, and the latter finally felt that the qi in his body began to flow slowly or even stagnated as the temperature around him became lower and lower. When his internal breath was turning, the low temperature of minus thirty or forty degrees could not cause much impact, but the injury caused by the more than a dozen punches just now with Ying Xingtian was quietly erupted by the cold.

"Please...... Ancestral Witch, upper body!"

At the critical moment, Qingqiu of course did not dare to stay strong, and immediately took out a diamond-shaped crystal pillar and crushed it, inhaled it into his nose and directly summoned the ancestral witch "Zhu Rong" on his upper body. As for the qi engine change, whether it would attract Ying Xingtian and the other grandmasters a few kilometers away was not something he was thinking about at all now.

If this continues, everyone on several parties may be frozen to death on the spot by this strange low temperature!

A scorching breath spread around Qingqiu's body with the ancestral witch who controlled the flames, "Zhu Rong".

He moved his hands and feet slightly, and then quickly pumped a burst of energy into the chest of each of his men, and finally the three of them regained some mobility.

"Ancestral Witch Zhurong, please come up to me!"

The three of them didn't dare to slack off, and quickly crushed a piece of crystal at the same time to complete the process of witchcraft inviting the gods to their bodies. Streams of heat bubbled out of their bodies, fighting against the strange cold around them. Although because of the realm gap, it is impossible to exert about three or four percent of the strength of Ancestral Witch Zhurong like Qingqiu, but even if it is only one percent, it can allow them to temporarily avoid the doom of being frozen to death.

"My lord, we ...... Our location ......"

As they were about to continue leaving, one of the men looked around and suddenly his face changed dramatically, and his voice trembled again.

Not because of the cold, but because of the fear.

In less than a minute, it was close to the exit of the underwater tunnel. But at this moment, being reminded by his subordinates, Qingqiu was stunned to find that the surrounding environment had become completely unfamiliar at some point!

Behind them was a horseshoe kiln, with gourd kilns on the left and right, and behind the steamed bread kiln in front was the exit of the underwater tunnel. But at this moment, all the Guyue kilns around the few people have turned into an unprecedented pagoda shape!

The original extremely standard 100-meter arrangement has also been stretched to at least 150 meters or more!

During the whole process, including the fact that he was a witch master, he had even invited the ancestral witch to come up and suppress the injured Qingqiu.

None of them are aware of it.

The temperature remained at minus thirty or forty degrees.

At this moment, the lit smartphone in Qingqiu's hand suddenly flashed, and then it was turned off directly.

The surroundings were plunged into darkness again.

Lithium battery, automatic shutdown at low temperature.

(DAMN IPHONE X!)

Qingqiu, who has always been proud of embracing technology, cursed secretly, and now misses the most old-fashioned flashlight or even a lit candle.

After hesitating for a moment, he simply picked up the "Twelve Witch Heavenly Recipes" mental method and lit a small flame on his fingertips.

A faint yellow glow came back on.

Then the four of them saw it at the same time, more than ten meters ahead...... Two stiff figures stood.

Sloppy, sloppy!

……

……

Returning to the pagoda-shaped ancient kiln marked with the number "Two Bai Yi Shi Yi", Ji Yiming checked very seriously.

From the façade of the ancient kiln, the roof of the kiln, the pedestal, to every brick, pattern and gemstone inside, even the black ash accumulated on the inner surface because of the kiln was carefully scraped off by him to check the traces on the original bricks.

The dim light of the goggles and the small space in the kiln make it difficult to do these inspections.

Although the surrounding temperature gradually dropped below freezing, Ji Yiming, who was always active, had not yet felt too much chill, but there was more and more white gas in his mouth and body, which even affected his vision in the kiln.

After scraping open the inside of the ancient kiln and not knowing the black ash on the first few pieces of masonry, he finally found some clues.

Two of the bricks and stones side by side have deep paw prints!

It is about an inch deep and three inches long. Ji Yiming compared it with his fingers and found that the size was about the same as the palm of an ordinary person's hand. It's pretty much certain that this should be left by a human and not some kind of beast, as for the one that can leave scratches on the hard masonry......

Naturally, there is no doubt that he is a cultivator.

Looking at this trace and the thickness of the black ash burned by the kiln on the surrounding masonry, it is not difficult to tell that it was left before the kiln was opened.

Ji Yiming scraped all the remaining black ash, and the whole person was made to a gray face, and found a total of seven deep or shallow claw marks. He touched it lightly with his fingers, only to feel a slight sharp break in the edge of the notch. Soon after proving that these paw prints were left, the pagoda-shaped kiln was directly opened, and the kiln burned black to cover it, so that the breach was not weathered for more than a thousand years.

The question is what these many paw prints represent.

Is it the cultivator who laid down the formations under these ancient kilns, or other foreign masters?

After leaving his paw prints, where did the man go?

And also...... I need to scrape off the black ash to find the paw prints, so how does Jiang Zhiyou know that the ancient kiln marked with "211" is different from other ancient kilns?

With these many mysteries in his mind, he quickly checked the next two ancient kilns, "314" and "277", and sure enough, he found the same traces in them.

The claw marks on "211" and "314" are exactly the same, and it can be judged that they were left by the same person. Only the claw marks in the ancient kiln marked with the number "277" are slightly different, and the palm of the hand is smaller than Ji Yiming, which should be a woman or a child.

So will there be the same claw marks as "277" in the remaining "458" ancient kiln?

With such an inference flashing in his mind, he searched several pagoda-shaped ancient kilns in succession, but did not find the corresponding number.

For comparison, the black ash in the two ordinary ancient kilns was scraped clean in a row, and indeed no fourth claw mark was found.

Just after this series of activities, Ji Yiming, who was steaming white gas from the kiln body all over his body, finally felt the surrounding temperature...... It seems to be lower than just now.

"God, this must be more than minus 20 degrees, right?"

The golden-headed black-tailed Gu snake that had been following him all the time still twisted the ten-meter-long snake body next to him, and its hard scales were glowing with white frost marks. The occasional dripping snake saliva falls to the ground, forming small white Xiaoice beads, which is extremely beautiful.

The low temperature of more than 20 degrees below zero is also rare for Ji Yiming.

Although Hanzhong is located in Shaanxi Province, it is very close to Guangyuan City in Sichuan Province, and is not a northern city in the traditional sense - the winter is at most minus 35 degrees Celsius, and there is no central heating.

And the "Taiyi Longevity Formula", which has just broken through the life barrier and cultivated the "Taiyi Longevity Formula" for a few days, obviously cannot withstand such extreme low temperatures.

After the initial heat in his body disappeared, Ji Yiming finally felt the effects of the terrible low temperature.

Cold hands and feet, and a splitting headache. The cold rushed in from every pore of the body, freezing all the internal organs as if they were going to stop working at any moment—every breath felt like a nail had been sprinkled in the lungs.

He took out the silver array plate given by Ying Xingtian, picked a blue-black agate from the gem he had just gotten along the way and embedded it in it, and began to work hard to restore his internal breath and fight against this terrible chill.

It's a pity that compared to the consumption required by the internal breath to resist the cold, the recovery of the internal breath by the array disk is tantamount to a drop in the bucket.

It can't go on like this!

Ji Yiming patted the Gu snake next to him, and simply got into the nearest "277" Yue Kiln Ancient Kiln, and beckoned the former to form a circle and block the door directly, sealing the entire cave tightly.

Except for the fact that it took some time for the Gu Snake to understand what he meant, the whole process was smooth.

Although the place in the cave is small, fortunately, Ji Yiming is not a tall and strong person, squatting and holding his head barely enough to fill the entire space. And the huge body of the Gu snake coiled up and blocked the door, which just cut off all the cold air, and finally allowed the internal breath of the "Taiyi Longevity Formula" to recover, catching up with the speed of consumption.

The only problem was that no matter how he gestured and persuaded, the Gu snake always insisted on the posture of poking its tail outward into the mouth of the cave with half of the snake's head outward: the space inside was already small, and the fishy smell lingered in it when the big guy opened his mouth to breathe, and there was no chance to emit out.

(I don't know how long this unexplained chill will last.) Whether it is underground or underwater, this season and the weather in Jiangnan should not have such strange low temperatures. ）

(Is it because the kiln fire that has been burning for thousands of years in the ancient kiln city has all been extinguished, causing the Great Unification Formation to mutate?)

(More than 1,000 years ago, in the first year of Xiankang, when the entire Shanglin Lake Natural Array was destroyed, there was a great drought in the sky.) But this time in the underground cave, it was a great drought from the sky...... Is there any connection between this?)

Ji Yiming was thinking in his heart when he suddenly heard a slight footstep not far from outside the cave.

The footsteps seemed to appear out of thin air, and they came to mind, mechanical and slow.

The interval between each step was exactly the same, until it came to a quiet stop outside the "277" cave where he was staying.

The line of sight was tightly blocked by the Gu snake, and it was normal to not be able to see the outside clearly.

But Ji Yiming's incomparably sharp spiritual sense in "Taiyi Longevity" told him......

Outside, there was no one.